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Saturday, November 2, 2013

The Three Bs.......

The three B's beetroot, broad bean, and blood orange are an absolute triumph in my latest tiffin lunch box collection. Actually there should be a fourth B, Bliss......The colours just scream spring, summer good times and hurry up stop typing and just eat me!

This recipe is for 2-3 (or 1 it's that yum)Three B's SaladIngredients

4 spring onions

Juice of 1 blood orange*

1.5 cups broad beans

50ml olive oil

Salt and pepper to taste

4 small roasted beetroot quartered

4 radishes quartered

2 blood oranges* segmented

50 g soft goats cheese

Method

Slice the spring onions (not too fine) and add to a mixing bowl with the blood orange juice

Gently coat the beetroot, broad beans and radishes through the dressing so that they still hold their shape

Gently add the blood orange segments

Serve doted with soft goats cheese

If there are any left overs the colour is great the next day as the blood orange and beetroot blend with the radishes and goats cheese

Notes:

You can use tinned beetroot but for this I found it too soft. To roast place beetroot in a baking tray with a splash of olive oil and salt and bake cover in tin foil at 160ºC for about 1 hour till tender.

Pealing the broad beans is to remove the bitterness of the outer shell but I don't mind the flavour so I leave some unpeeled for contrast in flavour and colour.

Really who wouldn't want to have that in their lunch box??

You can go all fancy and try plating it master chef style and serve with lamb steaks. To be honest I prefer the look of it all together in the tin, I'm a simple kinda chap.